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THE TURN OF THE TIDE
A History of the War Years Based on the Diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Author: Arthur Bryant
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant was an English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man of affairs. His books included studies of Samuel Pepys, accounts of English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history, and a life of George V.
Bryant's historiography was often based on an English romantic exceptionalism drawn from his nostalgia for an idealised agrarian past. He hated modern commercial and financial capitalism, he emphasised duty over rights, and he equated democracy with the consent of "fools" and "knaves"
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Publisher: Doubleday
Copyright Date: 1957
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Classic Americana Historical Vintage
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.. It provides a fly-on-the-wall recounting of Churchill and his right-hand military chief, Alan Brooks, who was instrumental in saving so many soldiers at Dunkirk and then was appointed by Churchill to lead Britain's military effort to take apart the Third Reich.
The book is based on Brooks' meticulously kept daily war diary as well as his post-war commentary on that diary with added context by Bryant compactly describing what was happening in the major theaters of war as Brooks and Churchill, the rest of the military and the Americans, Russians and, to some extent, Free French argued and politicked each other about the direction of the war.
Almost every consequential meeting and conversation between Churchill and Stalin and Roosevelt is recounted in simple but thorough detail. From the vantage point of decades into the future, the Allied war strategy looks so logical. In reality, no one knew what would work, the Americans and Stalin wanted an early attack on France even as Americans kept all the landing craft for their Pacific strategy.
It was Brooks who figured out the best way was to begin to take away the Mediterranean from Germany and he fought everyone to keep his plan intact.
This against the reality that Britain failed over and over in the beginning of the war. Finally, Brooks insisted Montgomery take over the 8th Army in the desert, and Montgomery succeeded where others failed miserably and finally beat Rommel, the first German domino that fell. Maybe most entertaining is the personal picture Brooks gives of Churchill, a supremely difficult boss who had to be corralled from pursuing creative adventures yet who single-handedly provided the British people needed, a spirit that barely existed before he became Prime Minister. This volume ends at the beginning of the Allies' invasion of Italy just as Mussolini is put to death.
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Book Condition
Color Boards: Very Nice decorated outer boards for the Age, see photos.
Corners / Outer Boards: Slight bumped corners, slight scuffing and rubbing,
overall nice condition for the age of the book, see photos
Binding: Overall tight
binding for the age
Pages: Overall appears to be
clean good "collectible" condition.
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